Dean Rusk Quotes

• One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

  Dean Rusk

  Listening Ear, Ears, Way

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• We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

  Dean Rusk

  War, Thinking, Cuban Missile Crisis

  Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec. 1962

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• Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

  Dean Rusk

  Appeasement, Aggressive, Aggressors

  "Fictional character: Dean Rusk". "Thirteen Days", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

  Dean Rusk

  Change, Attention, Pay

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• One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

  Dean Rusk

  Time, Two, People

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• While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

  Dean Rusk

  Sleep, Two, World

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• Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

  Dean Rusk

  Thinking, Giving, Machines

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• The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

  Dean Rusk

  Moving, Sight, Events

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• The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

  Dean Rusk

  People, Evil, Usual

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• When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

  Dean Rusk

  Thank You, Thank God, Goes On

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• The best way to persuade is with your ears.

  Dean Rusk

  Life, Advice, Ears

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• Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

  Dean Rusk

  Air, Doe, Situation

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• The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

  Dean Rusk

  Giving, United States, Cows

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• Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

  Dean Rusk

  Rights, Citizens, Georgia

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• The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

  Dean Rusk

  Peace, United States, World

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• Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

  Dean Rusk

  Mean, Science, Two

  Speech to American Bar Association, Atlanta, Ga., 22 Oct. 1964

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